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NATO allies worry the US can't defend Europe and counter China, but there's a way

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China 's threat to Taiwan poses a profound dilemma for NATO — does it tie up its most powerful ally from European defense at a critical moment? A new study suggests that while splitting US military resources and focus is a problem, it's a manageable one.

America has had to cope with the dichotomy between the Atlantic and the Pacific since World War II .

Building a military sufficient to simultaneously defend Taiwan and Europe today would be ruinous.

A similar dichotomy between Europe and the Pacific applies to weapons needed for missile defense.

In Europe , the threat is largely from Russian cruise missiles and short-range ballistic missiles.

The best defense is blast-fragmentation interceptors such as the SM-3 and THAAD.

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